title of a short story

[Nafpaktitis, Margarita]

Dear Colleagues:

I was recently asked for help in identifying the name of a short story, possibly Chekhov, with this plot: "a man inherits some money and is required to build something with the money. He is instructed on what materials he needs to build it and how big it should be. the story finishes with the man figuring out that he spend all of the inherited money on building the object and has none left."

If anyone knows what it is, I'd be grateful for your assistance!

Thank you in advance,
Margarita

Margarita Nafpaktitis, Ph.D.
Librarian for Slavic & East European Studies and Linguistics | Instruction Coordinator
Collections, Research & Instructional Services | Charles E. Young Research Library | UCLA
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